The UK government uses invasive data gathering techniques to try and prove that people claiming benefits are actually living lavish lifestyles.

Social media monitoring, covert physical surveillance, and data gathering from airlines, PayPal …

Manchester group launches action after people with disabilities report high number of stressful checks for potential scams

Disabled people are being subjected to stressful checks and months of frustrating bureaucracy after being identified …

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been questioned by MPs over its use of a secret set of instructions that are used by its computers to identify potential benefit fraudsters, and which appear to disproportionately target disabl…

The government is ‘forcing disabled people into gruelling and invasive benefit fraud investigations', a disability group has claimed.

A Manchester disabled people’s group has issued the government’s Department for Work and Pensions with a l…

Campaigners say disabled people are being unfairly targeted and living in 'fear of the brown envelope' thanks to mysterious computer processes that the government has never fully explained.

The Department for Work and Pensions is facing fre…

Disabled campaigners have sent a legal letter to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to question how its use of a secret algorithm could be discriminating against disabled people in the way it selects claimants to face benefit fraud …